She had sat commonly with her father, who was very proud of her wit, and heard the talk of many of his wild companions, often but ill-suited for a girl to hear; but she had never been a girl, she said; she had been a woman since she was eight years old.

Finally, his mind becomes familiar in a mechanical manner, ill-suited to the tastes of a child, with the work and exercises of primary instruction, the consequence being, very often, a feeble body and a stuffed mind, the stuffing having very little more effect upon the intellect than it has upon the organism of a roast turkey."

Especially he must be posted about the condition of the furniture, which I can guess is ill-suited to his needs.

It lies exceedingly flat, which causes the locality to be unhealthy and ill-suited to European constitutions; the soil is, however, fertile and rich; this is, perhaps, to be accounted for by the constant irrigation it undergoes from the overflowing of the Mississippi, which, like another Nile, periodically submerges the country around its banks.

The soils on which this rarity flourishes are in general as ill-suited to the production of vigorous native poetry as the flower-pots of a hot-house to the growth of oaks.

Next year he was made to work at a stocking-loom, preparatively to his learning the business of a hosier; but his mother, seeing the reluctance with which he engaged in an employment so ill-suited to his temper and abilities, prevailed on his father, though not without much difficulty, to fix him in the office of Messrs. Coldham and Endfield, attorneys in Nottingham.

A thickly-populated province, only sparsely dotted with lofty hills, would be ill-suited for the residence of a nomadic hunting race ignorant of agriculture.

For the Frame 'Tis not ill-suited to the same; Oak-carved, not gilt, for fear of falling; Old-fashion'd; plain, yet not appalling; And broad brimm'd, as the Owner's Calling.

Johnson, it seems, thought that Garrick should have courted him more, and perhaps sent the plays to his house; whereas Garrick, knowing that Johnson treated books with a roughness ill-suited to their constitution, thought that he had done quite enough by asking Johnson to come to his library.

The harbor of Balaklava was but ill-suited for the requirements of a large army.

A moment later a man pushed his way into the open, whose appearance was so strange and so ill-suited to the spot, that even Amos gazed upon him with amazement.

We can go back to the splendid Byzantine churches, with their wealth of mosaic, their subdued splendor of dulled gold covering arch and pillar as a background for the glow of color with which the artists of Constantine worked,in a rigid convention as to form which gives their figures an impressive air, but which is ill-suited to the representation of the divine Mother and Child.

For the Frame 'Tis not ill-suited to the same; Oak-carved, not gilt, for fear of falling; Old-fashion'd; plain, yet not appalling; And sober, as the Owner's Calling.

Red, florid, full-blooded, balked in his eagerness, he looked as savage as some denizen of the ancient forest, in pursuit as reckless, as ill-suited with ill-fortune.

"My tastes and talents had already been formed, and they were but ill-suited to the dismal monotony of my life in Northumberland.

And, moreover, he feared that his plain, democratic manners and principleswhich he scorned to alter for anyonewould be but ill-suited to the courtly life of Versailles.

387; changes in it, iii. 172, n. 2; criticises it himself, iii. 257, n. 3; easier in his poems than his prose, v. 17; female writing, ill-suited for, i. 223; formed on Temple and Chambers, i. 218; on writers of the seventeenth century, i. 219; Gallicisms, dislikes, iii. 343, n. 3; imitations of it, by Barbauld, Mrs., iii. 172; Burney, Miss, iv.

Some of the boats then left for Natchez, and others for the Illinois country; while the remainder turned their prows up stream, to stem the rapid currenta task for which they were but ill-suited.

It appeared that the region was ill-suited for farming and grazing, and was not capable of supporting so large a population.

Some places were dirty, and some crowded; in some houses the furniture was ill-suited, and in others the stairs were too narrow.

It is a little odd that they abstained from similar puns on Pitt and pit; but their indignation was chiefly directed at his youth as ill-suited to his powers

In real truth this bark-dress, though ill-suited to her figure, sets it off like an ornament.

But it is ill-suited to vengeance, because that attitude should be strong and solid, with the eye making the indication better than the finger.

With hickory are associated the properties of great strength, toughness, and resilience, but some pieces are comparatively weak and brash and ill-suited for the exacting demands for which good hickory is peculiarly adapted.

As soon as Bismarck heard from Werther of the first suggestion, he telegraphed to him a stern reprimand for having listened to demands so prejudicial to the honour of his master, and ordered him, under the pretext of ill health, to depart from Paris and leave a post for which he had shewn himself so ill-suited.